Mail 10.5.3 non-sticky SMTP

Subject: Mail 10.5.3 non-sticky SMTP
From: Macnificent Support <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:02:07 -0500
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On May 29, 2008, at 5:10 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Then there's Mail. It's now even worse than in 10.5.2. It did not
work in 10.5.0, or 10.5.1, or 10.5.2. I was so hoping that Apple
would finally make this service work. No such luck. 'Upgrading'
turned off SMTP incoming, and there's no way to get it on. Every
time I click the button and Save, the button simply unchecks itself.

Mail/Settings/General is indeed quite a quirky pane. But that was true even under Tiger. The "copy all mail to" and "copy undeliverable mail to" checkboxes were maddening. I would uncheck them, but SAVE would reapply the checkbox! I was only able to get the setting to stick (unchecked) when I re-entered Server's DEFAULT email addresses for those boxes. It shouldn't work that way. The box should stay checked or unchecked no matter what value the text field is holding.

Of course, the SMTP switch has no associated text field input. So, possibly clicking SAVE whilst doing a handstand and simultaneously burping is worth a try.

In my 26 years as an exclusively Apple user (bigot, actually), I've
NEVER seen Apple release software as insanely, woefully buggy as
Leopard Server. I've seen a few iffy Apple software products, but
never anything even approaching this. I'm told that Tiger Server is
way better, but my licence is for Leopard. :-(

As one Apple bigot to another, I couldn't agree more. What an embarrassment. After 5 frustrating attempts to install and configure a WORKING version of Leopard Server, I went back to Tiger... which is pretty rock solid, by comparison. I'll hang tight until I see what Server 10.5.4 brings.

Karl O - St. John Creative, Inc.
New Orleans

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